Evolutionary zoologist & quantitative geneticist @wormsrock.bsky.social
Joined September 2015
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6 Oct 2023
I'm only posting in the blue site now, and I have codes if you'd like to join me there.
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20 Sep 2023
Hello 3D genome people! Did you know that C. elegans has a good looking cohesin but no CTCF? The newly graduated Dr. Jun Kim @JunKim51053763 decided to look at what cohesin does for the compact, 100 Mb worm genome, fitting ~20,000 genes: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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15 Sep 2023
Biologists of Seattle! I live here for the next three months. Let’s go for a coffee or drink or hike so you can tell me about your research. I am also available to help with fieldwork or worm picking.
(Also, I'm mostly at bluesky now.)
ALT orca card #BusLife
ALT Flooded city park (Carkeek) due to beaver activity
ALT View of Mt. Rainier from University of Washington campus
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30 Aug 2023
I am honored and excited to be joining the Department of Biology at NYU this fall. We will be studying the role of RNA metabolism in development and disease. Grateful to @zamore_lab and @yamashitaflylab for advice and support. Looking for postdocs.
gainetdinovlab.org/
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24 Aug 2023
RENCI at UNC Chapel Hill has an opening for a Research Scientist with expertise in integrating knowledge graphs and machine learning, and an interest in neurosymbolic methods. Here's the job posting: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings…
Please share!
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10 Aug 2023
New postdoc position available! Evolution of mutation rates! 🚨🚨🚨
Please apply, but also feel free to get in touch with me--or past and present members of the lab--directly.
(RTs appreciated)
indiana.peopleadmin.com/post…
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8 Aug 2023
I'm excited to announce that my lab is moving to Johns Hopkins University in @HopkinsBio and @HopkinsCMDB grad program this fall! We are hiring at all levels, including grad students, technicians, postdocs, programmers, and staff scientists. Please DM me if you are interested!
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7 Aug 2023
A reminder to submit your symposium proposal for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, to be held in Montreal in July 2024. @sse_evolution @systbiol @ASNAmNat @eseb_org #Evol2024 (1/3)
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26 Jul 2023
The tenth "Evolution of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes" meeting will be held on June 17-20, 2024 at the Vienna BioCenter! #evoworm2024
oeaw.ac.at/imba/seminars-eve…
ALT An EvoWorm2024 flyer with an image of a nematode and fungi.
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22 Jun 2023
Come hear about this work tomorrow at the Evolution meetings, #evol23! Friday, 2:45, room 130 (mutation session)
12 May 2020
Who likes good news? We've received a notice of award for an NIEHS R21 to study how nematodes adapt to chronic radiation at Chernobyl. Excited to get to work with Sophie Tintori (pictured worm collecting in the red forest) to figure this stuff out.
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HOLY FARK!! FIRST IN SITU OBSERVATION OF SEA DAISIES! aka XYLOPLAX!!!
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15 Jun 2023
🚨Preprint!
Sex ratio is under strong selection. With random mating, frequency dependence leads to a 50:50 ratio, but in patchy populations, female bias evolves. You might think that this is a solved problem, thanks to decades of theory starting with Hamilton. You’d be wrong! 🧵
15 Jun 2023
Sexual antagonism evolves when autosomes influence offspring sex ratio biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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15 Jun 2023
Sol’s model was motivated by the real biology of Caenorhabditis becei, which lives in habitat patches (fallen fruit) on BCI, Panama, and has female-biased sex ratios achieved through superior competitive ability of X-bearing sperm. We suspect pat-effect sex ratios are common.
ALT Photo: A bunch of rotting Spondias mombin fruit on the forest floor at Barro Colorado Island. Each fruit is an ephemeral habitat patch for Caenorhabditis nematodes.
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